A conversation between NYRB editor Edwin Frank and the writer Scott Sherman, titled “How the Story Turns Out,” was published this week in the magazine The Point. Among other subjects, they discuss literature in translation, MFA programs, contemporary book reviewing, the survival of the novel, and the early years and inner workings of the NYRB Classics series, including the books that “got away”:
“I often regret letting Danilo Kiš’s A Tomb for Boris Davidovich—along with the Viktor Shklovsky I mentioned—slip my grasp. Giorgio Bassani’s Novel of Ferrara, Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina: those too.” (Edwin Frank)
To read the full interview, click here.